On this week’s show, we pick over the ashes of the 2026 Academy Awards and ask, why are they so boring? Also Oscar-related, we review the new French animation Arco, which was competing in those awards, but left empty-handed, losing to Netflix sensation KPop Demon Hunters. Did voters make the right call?
We also review the curious Polish-British confinement thriller The Good Boy, starring Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough. And finally, we take a look at three films screening in Glasgow Short Film Festival’s Scottish Competition – an experimental animation (Existential Greg), a poetic documentary (Community Theatre) and an intimate drama (Monogamy) – to get a flavour of the work being made on Scotland’s lively short film scene.
TIMESTAMPS:
Oscar debrief (1:22) Arco review (14:28) The Good Boy review (26:41) Glasgow Short Film Festival taster: three Scottish shorts (39:29)
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